Resistance

2020 120 min ★ 6.9 War, History, Drama

The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.

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Cast

Jesse Eisenberg

Marcel

Clémence Poésy

Emma

Matthias Schweighöfer

Klaus Barbie

Bella Ramsey

Elsbeth

Ed Harris

George S. Patton

Edgar Ramírez

Sigmund (Elsbeth's Father)

Géza Röhrig

Georges Loinger

Félix Moati

Alain

Vica Kerekes

Mila

Martha Issová

Flora

Details

Director

Jonathan Jakubowicz

Tagline

"The best way to resist is to survive."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Revenue

$449,753

Production

Pantaleon Films, Bliss Media, Epicentral Studios, Ingenious Media, Riverstone Pictures, RocketScience, Resistance Film US, Vertical Media

Reviews

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SWITCH.

June 15, 2020

★ 2/10

The film spends so much time moving Mangel from one place to another and having self-reflective moments with his co-stars that the film fails to really highlight his accomplishments or how he actually achieved them. Instead, it favours grandiose characters, weak attempts at tension, false love interests and incomplete arcs. Yet another case of when great stories happen to not-so-great filmmakers. ...